USPTO Patents Application 09995391

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Attorney Docket: 2328P
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DECLARATION AND POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR UTILITY PATENT APPLICATION
As a below named inventor, I hereby declare that:

My residence, post office address and citizenship is as stated below, next to my name,

I believe that I am the first and sole inventor of the subject matter which is claimed and for which a patent is sought
on the invention entitled

POLARIZATION INDEPENDENT MAGNETOOPTIC SWITCHES

the specification of which

X is attached hereto.

was filed on *.

I hereby state that I have reviewed and understand the contents of the above-identified specification, including the
c^ms, as amended by any amendment referred to above. We do not know and do not believe that the same was
eyjr known or used in the United States of America before my invention thereof, or patented or described in any
prpted publication in any country before my invention thereof or more than one year prior to this application, that the
sajjie was not in public use or on sale in the United States of America more than one year prior to this application,
arji said invention has not been patented or made the subject of an inventor's certificate issued before the date of
trfjg application in any country foreign to the United States of America on an application filed by me or my legal
re||resentatives or assigns more than twelve months prior to this application.

I acknowledge the duty to disclose information which is material to the examination of this application in accordance
\Mh Title 37, Code of Federal Regulations, Section 1.56 (a).

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I f|£reby claim foreign priority benefits under Title 35, United States Code, Section 1 19, of any foreign application(s)
f<fjn patent or inventor's certificate listed below and have also identified below any foreign application for patent or
iifgentor's certificate having a filing date before that of the application on which priority is claimed:

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Prior Foreign Application(s) Priority Claimed

(Number) (Country) (Day/Month/Year Filed) Yes No

(Number) (Country) (Day/Month/Year Filed) Yes No

I hereby claim the benefit under Title 35, United States Code, Section 119(e) of any United States application(s)
listed below and, insofar as the subject matter of each of the claims of this application is not disclosed in the prior
United States application in the manner provided by the first paragraph of Title 35, United States Code, Section
112, I acknowledge the duty to disclose material information as defined in Title 37, Code of Federal Regulations,
Section 1 .56(a) which occurred between the filing date of the prior application and the national or PCT international
filing date of this application:

60/291.956 May 21. 2001 Pending

(Application Serial No.) (Filing Date) (Status - patented, pending, abandoned)

(Application Serial No.)

(Filing Date)

(Status - patented, pending, abandoned)

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We hereby appoint Joseph A. Sawyer, Jr., Reg. No. 30,801; Stephen G. Sullivan, Reg. No. 38,329; Janyce R
Mitchell, Reg. No. 40,095; Michele Liu, Reg. No.: 44,875; and Joyce Tom, Reg. No. 48,681 of SAWYER LAW
GROUP LLP, located at 2465 E. Bayshore Rd., Suite 406, Palo Alto, California 94303, telephone (650)
493-4540, as my attorneys with full power of substitution and revocation, to prosecute this application and to
transact all business in the Patent and Trademark Office connected therewith.

Address all telephone calls to Joseph A. Sawyer, Jr., at telephone number (650) 493-4540, and all

correspondence to:

We hereby declare that all statements made herein of my own knowledge are true and that all
statements made on information and belief are believed to be true; and further that these statements were
made with the knowledge that willful false statements and the like so made are punishable by fine or
imprisonment, or both, under Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United States Code and that such willful false
statements may jeopardize the validity of the application or any patent issued thereon.

SAWYER LAW GROUP LLP

P.O. Box 51418
Palo Alto, California 94303

Ftp I Name of first inventor:

94539

Postal Code

City

County

State

SAME

People's Republic of China